Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look in an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Earlier this year, it appeared as if the United Kingdom would adopt a two-tiered sentencing law

in which members of certain minority groups would receive lesser sentences than others for the same crimes.

In practice, that would have meant that the more

white, the more male, the more Christian someone is, the tougher the judge would be instructed to be

on that person. While the sentencing counsel, the entity that provides guidance for courts in Britain

and Wales has withdrawn the ruling, IAN Herssey Ali is absolutely correct when she said that this

amounted to, quote, normalizing racism and was completely outrageous. The nations that are sometimes

called the Anglo-Sphere, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.S., have traditionally

been at the forefront of liberties, especially of speech and conscience, assembly, and religion.

In recent years, however, they seem far more set on squandering and even abandoning this heritage.

For example, in Scotland, laws claiming to protect so-called abortion rights could easily be interpreted to criminalize praying silently in your private house if it's within

200 meters of an abortion facility. Praying outside near an abortion center is already functionally

criminalized, both there and in England. In Australia, Billboard Chris, was arrested and fined $800

for holding his sign protesting puberty blockers for children.

Brisbane police said he was violating rules against, quote, obstructing or unreasonably disturbing

any person lawfully using the mall, but it's obvious from the video that he wasn't.

Given how differently protests for approved causes are treated in Australia, it's clear that Billboard Chris's real

crime was opposing transgender ideology. And of course, in the U.S., there's the case of Jack Phillips.

He's been targeted by the state of Colorado now for 13 years for refusing first to celebrate a gay

wedding and then a gender transition. He's prevailed twice in court, but both times,

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